Clarence King 



many improbable devisings for this 

 dream, both of us united in the memo- 

 ries of the wonderful drawings. This 

 delight in the imaginary use of the 

 splendor of glass in some way practi- 

 cable but novel or unknown, brought 

 him at once to propose with me a 

 scheme, which I still think worthy of 

 our having worked it out together. 

 This was when the project of the 

 tomb of General Grant had been 

 proposed to the public. Our notion 

 was to have filled the drum, or per- 

 haps even the curves of the dome, 

 with the richest and deepest of figured 

 glass, built, if I may so express it, 

 into the walls or the structure, and 

 not a mere fitting in as windows. 

 This was on his part, as also on mine, 

 a looking forward to a future which 

 is certain to come. The experience 

 of the last few years in the develop- 

 ment of that wonderful material has 

 pointed out how rational would be the 

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